Chapter 548

---- The pause was brief; as soon as they recognized the Dukes crest, they let us through.

I shifted the lace curtain slightly.

Outside, the city was bustling, lively, busy.

Thad never seen such prosperity before.

My eyes darted across the massive stone buildings we passed, the crowded streets, filled with exotic goods and spiced aromas.

Ten years...

the world had moved on without me.

"Fix that expression.

Remember who you are now," Freya muttered, adjusting her headscarf.

With every meter forward, we drew closer to the hill, to the Dukes castle.

When the carriage finally stopped, I felt the coachman dismount.

Sweat dampened my back.

Panic coiled around my throat.

«My daughter.

Iam doing this for my daughter.

I cannot fail» I swallowed the lump in my throat, and as the door swung open, I adjusted my gloves and stepped into the role I had to play.

Katherine Pembroke died in that asylum.

I am Rossella Everhart.

The Duchess of Everhart.

---- From the moment I saw him, everything about him fascinated me.

His roughness, his wild, piercing blue eyes, his sharp and masculine features...

his disdain...

from

«Not once...

not even once...

to me, Elliot» sek KATHERINE My body rocked with the movement of the carriage, the coachman urging the horses forward, hoping to reach

the curtain,

stretched endlessly toward the horizon, sheep grazing

sank behind the ever-present black clouds

light always had to fight to

"Dont be nervous.

fine," Freyas voice

met her wise, dark eyes

hadnt eaten since

I couldnt.

refused to go down

That word didnt even begin to

who had ever genuinely cared for me, and now!

my hands together, a thousand thoughts

the

---- would be condemned.

know where it had

always suspected our mother had been the strange oneshe died after giving

We never knew her.

spoke

regained consciousness, she was already on her

didnt have the heart to kill

the betrothed

was a

whispered that I had been pregnant out of wedlock, but no one dared to say it openly in front of the

they didnt respect

me my rightful

the people of the Duchy whispered behind my

in the carpet and my own

So much pain...

my body was consuming me, tearing

heart beat slower

ceiling, my trembling hand

final moments,

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